[
UK
/hˈɛdləs/
]
[ US /ˈhɛdɫəs/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛdɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- not using intelligence
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not having a head or formed without a head
the headless horseman
brads are headless nails
How To Use headless In A Sentence
- Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
- The screws and plates implanted in a damaged hip or knee can cost a pretty penny — $382 in the case of a 3-milimeter headless compression screw.
- the headless horseman
- Early map-makers were happy to leave blanks for terra incognita or to stock those empty spaces with headless cannibals, giant monopeds, Amazons and dragons.
- With a little hard work and a lot of time, a headless, footless and handless body soon stood in my apartment. The Scary Reality of a Real-Life Barbie Doll
- Smugglers made it the subject of a number of ghost stories, including the common one of a phantom black coach drawn by four headless black horses.
- What do you call a headless, legless guy on a soundstage? Here comes the bri...AAAAUUGGHHH!!!
- According to tradition he fell at Dittingdale, near Castlebridge, struck in the throat by a headless arrow.
- The lack of clear thinking ended with England being headless chickens in Nice. The Sun
- The ancients, who had a very faint and imperfect knowledge of the great peninsula of Africa, were sometimes tempted to believe, that the torrid zone must ever remain destitute of inhabitants; 126 and they sometimes amused their fancy by filling the vacant space with headless men, or rather monsters; 127 with horned and cloven-footed satyrs; 128 with fabulous centaurs; 129 and with human pygmies, who waged a bold and doubtful warfare against the cranes. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire